Book description
Whether you are new to Painter or a seasoned pro wanting to take your digital art to the next level, this inspirational book and DVD package will show you how to get the most out of Corel's powerful painting software.Starting with the basics and moving on to cover brushes, textures, cloning, toning and other effects, Martin Addison will help you master the tools and features needed to transform your photographs into stunning works of art. Over 2 hours of video tutorials and clear, step-by-step examples take you through the techniques in a no-nonsense manner, with all images provided on the accompanying DVD so you can learn by doing.
Packed with beautiful images to illustrate what can be achieved with the right skills and know-how, Painter XI For Photographers will inspire you to get creative with your personal or commercial photographs.
Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Half Title
- Decation
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Where can I get help?
- Acknowledgements
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Chapter 1: Getting started in Painter 11
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The Painter 11 workspace
- Default view
- Toolbox
- Opening a picture in Painter
- Brush Selector
- Picking a color from the Colors palette
- Properties bar
- Correcting mistakes
- Moving around the picture
- Rotating the canvas
- Normal view
- Full Screen view
- Keyboard shortcuts for the screen
- Using and organizing palettes
- Creating custom palettes
- Palette menu
- Brush Creator
- Using a graphic tablet
- Saving images
- Brush default settings
- Setting up preferences
- Photoshop – Painter
-
The Painter 11 workspace
- Chapter 2: First steps in cloning
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Chapter 3: Choosing brushes
- Selecting brushes in Painter 11
- First select the category
- Understanding the shape
- Now for the texture
- Blenders for smoothing and mixing
- Acrylics
- Airbrushes
- Art Pen
- Artists
- Artists Oils
- Blenders
- Calligraphy
- Chalk
- Charcoal
- Cloners
- Colored Pencils
- Conte
- Crayons
- Digital Watercolor
- Distortion
- Erasers
- F -X
- Felt Pens
- Gouache
- Image Hoze
- Impasto
- Liquid Ink
- Markers
- Oil Pastels
- Oils
- Palette Knives
- Pastels
- Pattern Pens
- Pencils
- Pens
- Photo
- RealBristle
- Smart Stroke
- Sponges
- Sumi -e
- Tinting
- Watercolor
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Chapter 4: Customizing brushes
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The Brush Creator
- General palette – dab types
- General palette – dab types 1
- General palette – dab types 2
- General palette – Method
- General palette – subcategory
- General palette – grain
- Spacing palette
- Angle palette
- Well palette
- Random palette
- Watercolor or Digital Watercolor?
- Watercolor explained
- Watercolor layers
- Water: Wetness
- Water: Dry rate
- Water: Diffuse amount
- Water: Wind force
- Water: other controls
- The Randomizer
- The Transposer
- Creating a captured dab
- Saving brush variants
- Making a new brush category
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The Brush Creator
- Chapter 5: Paper textures
- Chapter 6: Layers and montage
- Chapter 7: Using color
- Chapter 8: Landscape
- Chapter 9: Children
- Chapter 10: Portraits
- Chapter 11: Special effects
- Chapter 12: Printing and presentation
- Index
Product information
- Title: Painter 11 for Photographers
- Author(s):
- Release date: July 2013
- Publisher(s): Routledge
- ISBN: 9781136100215
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